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For all the talk in America now and forever about how spiritually diverse we are as a nation, it seems that many people have been lying to the researchers. Or just maybe have been trying to spare their mother's feelings and no longer feel they should.

Here are the surprising statistics I found as I was thumbing through my latest The Lutheran magazine (3/2012, p. 8):

44% told the Baylor University (Waco, TX) Religion Survey that they spend no time seeking out eternal wisdom.
19% said it was 'useless to search for meaning.'
28% told LifeWay that it's not a 'major priority' in my life to find my deeper purpose.
One of the most striking trends in religion statistics in recent decades is the rise of the Nones, people who checked "no religious identity" on the American Religious Identification Survey. The Nones went from 8% in 1990 to 15% in 2008.

So, while America grows increasingly vocal on the edges of the religious landscape, there appear to …